Colourful old town Kuching by night Tonight, I hit old-town with some friends for dinner.  I was hit with parking hell when I got there with three events on:  the river regatta, a craft fair and a drumming festival. But it was worthwhile as the place was alive with lots of food trucks.  It was […]

Transport comparison to the airport I left my hotel behind KL Sentral monorail at 0700 and caught the 0730 bus to the airport.  Despite my fears of rush hour traffic, I got to KLIA Terminal 2 in 50 mins.  In fact, I don’t recall having ever been stuck in traffic on this route. The bus, […]

I’m approaching the end of my stay in Kuching.  This time it is a little different as I’ve given my up my apartment for eight of the ten nights to family visiting from Birmingham.  I’m camping with my brother, sleeping on the mattress in the living room without aircon and having cold showers. During the […]

At the gate at Changi airport, I was a little apprehensive about having done a gate-to-gate self-connect, only possible because I didn’t have checked-in luggage. Information on Scoot’s website suggested that I should have cleared immigration, meaning that I would re-enter the airside.  I was afraid the re-entry into airside might have been captured from […]

Above:  The paler D24 and the more yellowish Musang King. Miserable Auckland summer I left Auckland two days after the first of three storms, the third being only yesterday.  The latest one was Cyclone Gabrielle which resulted in all flights in Auckland and the northern part of the North Island being cancelled. This appears to […]

Above:  Itinerant fresh food vendor on motorcycle on our drive near Pemangkat. Our driver Jie To messaged me yesterday asking if we could “prepone” our departure to Kuching from 0700 to 0400, as he expected long queues at the border. We consulted the others and the response ranged from “No problem” to “No”.  Other people […]